Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams will join the Rotary Club of Florence Monday, May 1 to discuss improvements his office has made to the election process and future enhancements planned for th
Lee Crume, CEO of BE NKY Growth Partnership, will be the featured speaker at the next Rotary Club of Florence lunch meeting.Crume will share current business trends and discuss four recently-launc
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021: events and initiatives
Florence remembers its 300 Auschwitz deportees
Editorial Staff
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Every year, Florence holds events to mark
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945.
“In these times of a race for vaccines to eradicate Covid 19, Holocaust Remembrance Day is an extraordinary occasion to consider the
responsibility, awareness and culture of the value of remembrance as a fundamental ‘vaccine’ against today’s too much forgetfulness about respecting the dignity of all human beings through education and civic culture,” commented Alessandro Martini, city councillor for the culture of remembrance. “Our Auschwitz Memorial is a symbol and represents an opportunity for us all.”
Best events in Florence this January, 2021
Our top picks for the month of January, 2021
Jane Farrell
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Over 30 Florentine cultural instituations come together to celebrate Dante Alighieri s 700th anniversary in 2021. Inaugurated with an exhibition by Massimo Sestini at the Santa Maria Novella complex in October, the full calendar of events takes off this January with an enthralling range of events dedicated to the Supreme Poet. Over 50 events have been scheduled over the upcoming year, digital and otherwise, as well as an updated Facebook page with plenty to delight literary lovers. Highlights of this month s Dante calendar include 88 rarely seen drawings of Dante s
At 6pm on December 31, a marvellous musical production will take place at the Sala della Malachite in the
Stibbert Museum. A viola duo consisting of Stefano Zanobini (first viola of the Orchestra della Toscana) and Hildegard Kuen (violist of the Euphoria Quartet) will perform music by
Nardini, Cambini and Mozart in a lyrical ushering in of the New Year. The concert will be accompanied by a historical-visual guide to the venue and will be streamed live on the A.Gi.Mus. Firenze YouTube channel.
Jazz4Christmas brings the best of Italian and Tuscan jazz live streamed to your home to celebrate the end of 2020. Performing at 9pm, it will be viewable via the Facebook pages of Music Pool, Musicus Concentus, Pisa Jazz and Jazz Club of Vicchio.